ANTENNA'RIA DIOICA. 
DICECIOUS ANTENN ARIA. 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
CORYMB1FERA5. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
4 inches. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
dry hills. 
No. 247. 
The name of this genus, Antennaria, is deduced 
from antennae, in allusion to its capillary seed-down, 
which bears a resemblance to the antennae or feelers 
of an insect. The specific term Dioica, is intended 
to mark the dioecious character of its flowers; those 
of one plant having their anthers most perfect, whilst 
those of another are most perfect in their pistils. 
This remarkably pretty British plant has long 
been known as the Gnaphalium dioicum, but is now, 
with several other species, separated from that genus ; 
and one of the characteristics of the new genus, an- 
tennaria, is its having dioecious florets. 
It has borne many familiar appellations, as cud- 
weed, cotton-weed, everlasting; and the fancy of 
the old authours added a name of more graceless 
character to one of their cudweeds; which was herb a 
impia, or impious herb ; because, as Gerarde says, 
‘The yonger, or those floures that spring vp later, 
are higher, and ouertop those that come first, as 
many wicked children do vnto their parents.’ 
This plant will flourish in an exposed eastern 
situation, in a dry and rather light soil. May be 
increased by separation in the spring. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 5, 1 7. 
